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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus,news.software.b
Subject: Re: .newsrc sorter/reorderer
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.124522.28985@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 14 Jan 91 12:45:22 GMT
References: <PST+.91Jan10184738@ack.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <PST+.91Jan10184738@ack.Stanford.EDU>,
pst+@ir.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina) writes:
> I'm looking for a simple hook or function to tidy up my .newsrc (and
> the .el file, but that is _less_ important) and reorder it according
> to a presentation sequence (similar to nn).

I posted my sort-newsrc script to news.software.b,news.software.nn and
comp.lang.perl a few weeks ago.  Here is some of the blurb that I wrote
last time:

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If you use nn and also another newsreader (I use both nn and trn) then
you may wish for a way of sorting your .newsrc file so that the other
newsreader uses approximately the same presentation sequence as nn does.
Here is a script that sorts a .newsrc file into the order specified by a
.nn/init file.  It works OK with my .newsrc and my .nn/init files; your
mileage may vary.

Even if you don't use nn, you might find this script useful; just fake
up a .nn/init file for it.  I hope that the summary included in the
source is sufficient to enable you to do this.
---------

and here is the documentation from the top of the script itself:

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#!/usr/bin/perl

# Sort a .newsrc file, according to sequence information like that
# used by nn.

# A. P. Barrett <barrett@ee.und.ac.za>, December 1990.

# Inputs:
# 1.  The old .newsrc file.  Presented on stdin.
# 2.  A .nn/init file, or reasonable facsimilie thereof.  Named
#     as a command line argument, or defaulted to $HOME/.nn/init
#     if that exists.
#
# Output:
#     A new .newsrc file.  Sent to stdout.
#
# Action:
# The .newsrc file is sorted according to the sequence information
# in the .nn/init file.  This will not necessarily be identical to the
# order used by nn, because we do not read the global nn/init file, and
# we make no attempt to deal with non-vanilla features of nninit files
# or newsrc files.
#
# Format of nninit file:
# The format is actually more complicated; this script supports only the
# following subset.
  [deleted  --apb]
---------

Hope this helps.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za (or %ee.und.ac.za@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu)
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